Carroll, D.J., Blakey, E. and Simpson, A. (2021) Can we boost preschoolers’ inhibitory performance just by changing the way they respond? Child Development, 92 (6). pp. 2205-2212. ISSN 0009-3920
Abstract
Changing the way children make their response appears to sometimes, but not always, boost their inhibitory control—though interpreting existing findings is hampered by inconsistent methods and results. This study investigated the effects of delaying, and changing, the means of responding. Ninety-six preschoolers (Mage 46 months) completed tasks assessing inhibitory control, counterfactual reasoning, strategic reasoning, and false belief understanding. Children responded either immediately or after a delay, and either by pointing with their finger, or with a hand-held arrow. Delaying boosted performance on all tasks except false belief understanding; arrow-pointing only improved strategic reasoning. It is suggested that delay helps children work out the correct response; it is unlikely to help on tasks where this requirement is absent.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | executive function; inhibitory control; false belief; response mode; response delay |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jan 2021 14:36 |
Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2022 14:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/cdev.13617 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169258 |